Improving mental health support
19 2021
How to give young people agency in mental health
Hear young people & the Agency project team discuss their tips & experiences for having better mental health conversations in our new podcast
Children, young people and families
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Forgotten or ignored? Safety research in community mental health services
Have your say on the safety and quality of care provided in adult community-based mental health services
Collaborating with people with lived experience
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Read More19 2020
The PARTNERS2 pandemic data collection challenge
Members of a trial looking at improving collaborative mental health care explain why they decided to continue the trial during lockdown
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Read More1 2016
Involvement in Research on Loneliness
by Anjie Chhapia | Jackie Hardy
Reducing loneliness – how do you do that then? Hopefully through recruiting the right Community Navigators! Here we reflect on how involving experts by experience in a recruitment exercise can add value and hopefully contribute to a successful research study.
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Read More25 2016
Getting our Report Card – asking people what they think of you and acting on their responses, the Your Experience in Mind Survey
by Madeleine Musgrove
Research and Evaluation Officer, Mind
Mind have been working together with the McPin Foundation since 2014 to evaluate the experience of people using our federated local Minds through the annual ‘Your Experience in Mind’ survey. We have 146 local Minds across England and Wales providing over 50 different types of service.
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Read More13 2016
Implementing an online mental health toolkit for relatives– reflections from our first data day!
by Vanessa Pinfold
There is an increased focus and interest in how to implement innovations into health care settings. And there should be! Call it improvement science or knowledge transfer or implementation – this area of work is how information developed through research studies or service improvement programmes can be used to achieve practical change.
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Read More31 2016
Mental Health and Support into Employment: Is it Working?
by Susanne Gibson
As the recent report from the Mental Health Taskforce points out, only 43% of people with mental health problems are in work, compared with 65% of people with other health conditions, and 74% of people in the general population. The figures are far lower for people with severe mental illness – for example, the employment rate for people with schizophrenia is around 8%.
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Read More3 2015
Reflections from working on an evaluation project: Your Experience in Mind
by Julie Billsborough
We are keen to look at new ways of involving mental health service users and carers in research. Part of our commitment to developing new approaches has been to investigate the things that have worked well and not so well about the methods we have tried in our own research and evaluation studies. We will publish a series of methods papers describing our work. Our first methods paper describes the 'Survey Champion' approach used in an evaluation of Local Minds.
Collaborating with people with lived experience
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Read More25 2015
Right Here Right Now: The CQC on the state of crisis care
by Susanne Gibson
The Crisis Care Concordat was launched in February 2014 with the aim of improving the quality and availability of help and support for people experiencing a mental health crisis; support before reaching crisis point, urgent access to safe, respectful and effective care in an emergency, and support for recovery and the prevention of future crises.
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Read More27 2014
Ups and Downs
by Julie Billsborough | Roger Smith
We have been involved in a study looking at experiences of support and treatment in bipolar disorder. And it has recently been published in the Journal of Mental Health so it felt like a good time to reflect on this piece of work.
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